What happens when Spike stumbles upon a book telling him about an ancient power called Alchemy? That when used for good, can create. But when used for evil, can destroy. {A Fullmetal Alchemist crossover}

The ponies are about to carry out Summer Shutdown and bring back winter. This does not sit well with a small breezie colony living in Applejack's orchard. Someone has to stop the ponies and save the world...

Deep in the Royal Library is a book. A terrible book that is said to send whoever reads it mad. A book so dangerous that it has to be hidden away and secured with chains to prevent it from ever being opened.

A book which has just been accidently checked out by Spike on behalf of Twilight Sparkle.

The Star In Yellow is rising once more, and only Rainbow Dash and Spike can save Twilight before it's too late. Ideas live forever. Ponies do not.

This fic is loosely inspired by the 19th century story 'The King In Yellow'.

Oh yes, I've been convinced into trying out Fimfic and it is indeed quite snazzy!

Chapter 3 is coming along nicely and will be up very soon (he says!). I'm 8000 words into it, and though I could cut it into 3k chunks for some cheap updates on EqD I'm determined to keep it as one chapter, since this is supposed to be a three-act story, even though the last chapter may end up being longer than the rest put together!

As I'm reading the last bit of Chapter 2, "For the Reunion" from the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children soundtrack starts playing. A more appropriate musical accompaniment could not have existed, that was creepy and terrifying.

Damnit to hell Blueshift; every time I open one of your stories I find myself unable to stop until it's over. So now, not only am I reading fan fiction at 2 in the morning, but I'm also really creeped out and probably won't be able to sleep even once I'm done. Why are you so awesome?!

But as for the story, I... I think it surpassed Fallout:Equestria. And I LOVE Fallout:Equestria. I mean... and the reveal... and that means Silver Crescent was... oh man I have to go distract myself from all this awesome.

Thanks, it is comments like these that make me grin ear to ear and inspire me to keep writing! I do think this is easily my best story so far, it's just a shame that it hasn't got the same sort of buzz from the fandom as some of my other, shorter, sillier ones. Tell your family and friends! (Well, maybe not your family. "Mum, mum, you have to read this My Little Pony fanfiction!")

I stayed up until half six in the morning reading this and it's totally worth the lack of sleep. This is a very well-written story, the characters were "realistic" and, even though it's tagged as Dark, it made me laugh. A lot. The ending was bittersweet; kinda sad that Yellowstar, who wanted to make everyone happy, only got the chance to do one act of kindness (saving Twilight) before Twilight accidentally killed her (although it sounds harsh when it's put that way), but she still got her own happy ending. An apology probably would've been nice as well, though.

So yeah, favourited and I'm looking forwards to reading the rest of your fics.

Content: This is brilliant, there's nothing else I can say about it.Effectiveness: I love stories that can make you burst out laughing and bring you to tears. There is so much emotion in this, and it really pays off.Memorabilia: Seriously. It's these sorts of fanfics that made me fall in love with MLP, and it's these sorts of fanfics that are probably going to stay with me forever.Continuity: You really dug into the fandom here, especially with a certain character's history. Dash burning books -again-? I'm gonna have to guess that's a reference to -something- so go you!Overall: